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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT E.` POINDEXTEB, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

y SAW-HANDLE.` i y K r SPECIFICATION formlng part of Letters Patent No 292,946 dated February 1884 Applicmon filed June 29, 1883 (No model l To all whom, t may concern.' proper passes through the handle, is threaded, 55

Be it known that I, ROBERT E. POINDEX- and bears upon its end the thumb-nut c3. TER, of the city of Indianapolis, county of The operation of my said invention is as arion, and State of Indiana, have invented follows: The projection c2 on the bolt part 5 certain new and useful Improvements in Saw- C2 `is first inserted in the hole a in the sawandles, of which the following is a speciliblade. The part C" is then placed on the bolt 6o portion of the part O2, and slipped up close My said invention consists in an improved against the saw, the bifurcated'end of the side Y `means of attaching handles to crosscut-saws, i 1o whereby the handle may be firmly and sel 02. The handle B is then also placedon the curely attached to the saw, and quickly and l bolt part O2, and then the nut c3. Said nut is 65 easily detached, as will be ereinafter more finally screwed tightly against the washer b eferrlng to the accom anying drawings, whic are made a part hereof, and on which of the wedge formation of the bolt part O2 similar letters of reference indicate similar and the bearing c therefor, the drawing back 7o parts, Figure lis aside elevation of one end of said part O2 by the thumb-nut c3 also of a saw embodying my invention; Fig. 2, an serves to force said part tightly against the elevation of the other side of the same; Fig. side of the saw-blade, and thus clamps said 2o 3, a longitudinal section on an enlarged scale saw-blade firmly between said part and the on the dotted line z z; Fig. 4, a transverse portion@ of the part O. The several parts are 75 vertical section on the dotted line y y; Fig. 5, thus secured firmly and rigidly together. -In a transverse vertical section 011 the dotted line changing or removing the handle the thumba; x, and Fig. 6 a top or plan view of the por-` nut c3 is first loosened or removed, as the case tions shown by Fig.r3. it, may be, when all the other parts become loose In said drawings, the portions marked A `at once, and can be handled as desired. 8o represent the saw-blade, B the handle, and Having thus fully described my said inven- G2 the two parts of the fastening for attachtion, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure ing the handle to the saw. by Letters Patent, is-- he saw-blade` A is of an desired construction, and is provided with holesa at each handle B, of the fastening composed of the 85 end. combined hook and wedge bolt O2 and the The handle B is an ordinary saw-handle, device C', which, together with said bolt, is and is provided with a hole near its lower adapted toclamp and hold the saw-blade, sub- 3 5 end, over which a washer, b, should be placed. stantially as set forth. i The fastening for connecting the saw-blade 2. The combination of the saw A, handle 9o and handle together is composed of the de- B, device O', and hook-bolt O2, provided with thumb-nut o3, substantially as set forth.

front side of the handle, and is itself divided handle B, of the device C, having portion c into two portions, one` of which, c, abats extending out on one side of the saw, and 95 hole a therein, and is slotted or bifurcated, so the saw, to form a bearing for the wedge-bolt, as to leave said hole uncovered. `Iheother and the combined wedge and hook bolt O2,

portion, c', of this part C extends outon the having projection o2 and thumb-nut c3, sub-. roo other sideof the saw, (see Figs. 3 and 6,) and stantially as shown and specified.

h 5o` vided with a projection, c2, at one` end which 26th day of June, A. D

enters the hole ,thus ma ing the device a ROBERT E. POINDEXTER. [L s j hook-bolt, and is enlarged at the/same end In presence .ofH

which bears the projection e2, thus making it 4 C. BRADFORD,

also a wedge-bolt. The stem or bolt portion l E. W. BRADFORD. 

